CaFE
City of Las Vegas Arts Commission
(Don't be misled by the name; this has links for artist opportunities throughout the country.)
The Aaron Siskind Individual Photographers Fellowship Grants
The Alexia Foundation for World Peace
The Gordon Parks International
College Art Association
Art Opportunities Monthly
Artist Help Network
The Center for Documentary Studies
The Fund for Women Artists
Langlois Foundation
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Women's Studio Workshop
Puffin Foundation
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Alabama
Alabama State Arts Council
Arizona
Arizona Commission on the Arts
California
San Francisco Arts Commission
Arts Council Silicon Valley
LEF Foundation (California)
Colorado
Colorado Creative Industries (previously Colorado Council on the Arts)
Connecticut
LEF Foundation (New England)
Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism
Delaware
Delaware Division of the Arts
District of Columbia
The District of Columbia Commission on Arts and Humanities
Florida
Florida Division of Cultural Affairs
Idaho
Idaho Commission on the Arts
Illinois
Illinois Arts Council
Indiana
Indiana Arts Commission
Kentucky
Kentucky Arts Council
Louisiana
Louisiana Division of the Arts
Maine
Maine Arts Commission
LEF Foundation (New England)
Maryland
Maryland State Arts Council
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Cultural
LEF Foundation (New England)
Michigan
Creative Many (previously Art Serve Michigan)
Minnesota
Five Wings Art Council
Jerome Foundation
Minnesota State Arts Board
Mississippi
Mississippi Arts Commission
Montana
Montana Arts Council
Nebraska
Nebraska Arts Council
Nevada
Nevada Arts Council
New Hampshire
New Hampshire State Council on the Art
Artist List: www.nh.gov/nharts/artsandartists/index.html
Grant Listing: www.nh.gov/nharts/grants/index.htm
LEF Foundation (New England)
New York
Jerome Foundation
Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council
New York Foundation for the Arts
North Dakota
North Dakota Council on the Arts
Oregon
Oregon Arts Commission
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Leeway Foundation
Pew Fellowships in the Arts
Rhode Island
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
LEF Foundation (New England)
South Carolina
South Carolina Arts Commission
South Dakota
South Dakota Arts Council
Tennessee
Tennessee Arts Commission
Vermont
Vermont Arts Council
LEF Foundation(New England)
Virginia
Virginia Commission on the Arts
Washington
Artist Trust
West Virginia
West Virginia Commission on the Arts
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Arts Board
Wyoming
Wyoming Arts Council
Fulbright Program
Asia
Asian Cultural Council
Japan Foundation
Canada
Canada Council for the Arts
England
Arts Council England
France
The Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarships at the Foundation des Etats-Unis
Scandinavia
The American-Scandinavian Foundation
The Nordic Artists' Centre
MOA online / design & build
MOA online / artist in residence
Bemis Center
Penland
Ox-Bow
Franconia
Harpo Foundation
Anderson Ranch
Banff Centre
Residency Programs: www.resartis.org
Ash Street Project
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Gatlinburg, TN): The residency program is designed to provide pre-professional, self-directed artists time and space to develop a major body of work in a creative community environment of students and visiting faculty. Five artists are selected annually to participate in the 11-month program that begins mid-June and continues through the end of May the following year.
The Cooper Union School of Art Summer Residency Program (New York, NY): A six week program, the School of Art Summer Residency Program is designed for emerging artists to develop their work while gaining exposure to the renowned artists, critics, curators, galleries, and museums that New York City has to offer. Each artist selected for the residency will have a semi-private, sky-lit studio in the historic Foundation Building in the heart of the East Village. Lectures, discussions, and critiques with outstanding guest faculty facilitate an open exchange of ideas and provide a critical context for contemporary issues in art.
Cornucopia Art Center, Lanesboro Residency Program (Lanesboro, MN): The Cornucopia Art Center/Jerome Foundation Residency Program offers two-week and four-week residencies to emerging artists each year. The program is designed to provide opportunities for emerging artists to create new work.
Elsewhere Artist Collaborative (Greensboro, NC): Elsewhere's residency program invites emerging and established artists and scholars to create site-specific works using the plethora of objects and dynamic spaces as materials for works or as a foundation for conceptual or technological projects. Residents launch projects from within the theoretical framework of an evolving exhibition of objects and artworks across media, composing an experimental museum rethinking the premise of the collector and collection, questions of history and myth, the stasis of the art object, the role of the artist, and the relationship of process within production. Residents are encouraged to spend one month creating in the space. No proposals are requested. Instead, we ask artists to draw their ideas from the space itself, its resources, and the multiplicity of systematic arrangements and performative organizations that interweave resource, artwork, and collaborative artistic response. Residents pay a $200 residency fee and $50 deposit to hold space upon acceptance of the invitation.
Earth Ship Academy (architecture, sustainable living, environmentalism)
In Cahoots (printmaking, letterpress, book arts)
Alliance of Artists Communities
National Park Service
Ceramics Monthly residencies
Julia Galloway, from the University of Montana, Missoula has a great resource called “Field Guide for Ceramic Artisans,” two pages have residencies split between US and International:
http://ceramicsfieldguide.org/chapter-2/artist-in-residence-usa/
http://ceramicsfieldguide.org/chapter-2/artist-in-residence-international/
NCECA: http://nceca.net/artist-opportunities-and-residencies/
Article on Residencies: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/7-best-artist-residencies-1033418
Excellent Opportunity for current students: http://moaonline.org/i3/
Seattle-based artist Timea Tihanyi’s residency: https://www.sliprabbit.org/
Chautauqua School of Art
Skowhegan Art
New York Academy of Art
Brandeis
Tufts
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Ash Street Project (Ceramics)
College Arts
New York Foundation for the Arts
City of Tacoma
Artist Trust
Making the decision to attend MFA programs in the visual arts can require time and personal reflection. There are compelling reasons to do so if you are interested in evolving as an artist, teaching at the college level and/or at independent K-12 schools. An MFA can offer significant opportunities that you would not otherwise have to expand your vision and understanding of your own work and other artists’ practices. It does not guarantee employment in the field and cost of MFA programs should be seriously considered.
MFA programs are competitive and varied. It is important to do due research to find the program that is right for you. Explore the faculty, graduate student work, teaching assistant or other professional development opportunities, the culture and community you would be a part of, financial aid, facilities, and/or opportunities outside of the art program in determining where you would like to apply.
It can take time to develop a strong, independent portfolio. The average age at many MFA programs
The Department of Art and Art History has copies of The CAA Directory of Graduate Programs in the Visual Arts. This is a valuable resource. It is also important to consult with your professors, alumni, and other individuals who have attended or are attending MFA programs to get advice as you decide if and where you want to apply.
MFA programs provide time, space, a community of other artists, faculty mentors, and visiting artists’ perspectives. This combination can be very challenging and enriching. There is no better way to focus on your work at a critical juncture in your development as an independent artist.
Time Line:
1. Choose a country: It is very important to choose a country based on some unique aspect of its culture, political structure or artistic development. An aspect, which is not available in the United States.
Learn about the history of the country
Be aware of its political and economic situation (you may be living there for a year so be prepared)
Location: what is the countries proximity to other regions of interest (you will have time to travel)
Climate: can you deal with it
Language: Do you know it? What is the language requirement?
2. Make contact: develop a relationship with someone in the host country (a professor or artist)
develop a relationship with a host institution ( not necessary but very helpful)
get letters of support or invitation from your contacts
3. Write your proposal: This should address "the why"? Why this particular country? Why this particular time? Why this particular institution? (if applicable) And what? What will I gain from this experience? What will the people of the host country gain? What information can I furnish which is not readily available to them? And how? How will this enhance my career goals? How will this help me mature and grow as a person? How will I share this information with others when I return to the U.S.?
4. Write your Bio: Be honest and humble (If your all that you don’t need the experience a Fulbright will offer)
Try in some way to find something in your personal history that may support your proposal (not necessary but could be helpful)
You will need to take a physical examination prior to being awarded a grant. This will include an STD test and an AIDS test. If you carry any one of these viruses you will not be awarded a grant. Each country will have its own physical requirements in addition to the above mentioned.
Start the process at least nine months to one year in advance
Finally: APPLY! Someone must get the grant so it might as well be you.